ELLliteracyJBromen - Academic Language Interaction

HIA Wednesday Cluster: Middle School, Interaction, Collaboration!
Facilitator: Jill Bromenschenkel
http://typewith.me/f3zMVeZJxJ

Whose Turn to Talk?

PPT: interaction

Walkthrough Wonderings:

How to shift vocabulary development from correct, to useful to applicable ?
How can the use of technology be expanded for more student engagement?
How do students organize their thinking?
How do we shift the roles of the teachers and the students?
How do the students use the posted SWBAT to extend their learning?
What principles guide the ELL philosophy? How are those principles implemented?
How can we increase the time students spend in English language development?
What are the priorities for teacher learning at HIA?
How do we move questioning to higher order levels?
How do we move forward with the concept of differentiation?

Extensions....

How will we increase institutional knowledge & provide time and practice for interactive rehearsal strategies? Collaboration and interaction should be both digital and analog. How can we maximize tech equipment and web based tools? Intense learning teams in this area… What do our students need for authentic contribution in 21st century future? How do we purposefully make strides toward closing the digital and academic divide?

Goals:
Increase Student Oral Language Interaction
Increase Teacher capacity for facilitating interactive instructional settings (digital and analog)
Promote interactive uses of SMART boards-and maximize use of current tech tools

· Linoit http://en.linoit.com/
· Wallwisher http://www.wallwisher.com/
· Skype
· Google chat
· Todaysmeet http://todaysmeet.com/
· Shared typepad http://typewith.me/
· Edmodo http://www.edmodo.com/

Shift roles of teacher/ student ownership of learning

What will we:
Keep?
Merge?
Remove?

In order to align rehearsal and interaction strategies, we must be familiar with the two types of language objectives:

Content Obligatory Language Objectives:

Must be taught in order to access or understand the content objectives

Content Compatible Language Objectives:

Are needed for overall language acquisition and can be connected to the delivery of content objectives

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Choose and Use Interactive structure/ rehearsal strategy

Step One:
Begin with Content Objective

Step Two: Collaborate with another professional to match language objectives

Choice 1: use HIA content compatible language objectives (from an HIA school wide list or grade level created list)
Choice 2: connect with content obligatory language objective (which language function, skill or process MUST be taught for students to ACCESS the content objective)

Step Three:
Determine how an interaction strategy may be used to teach or practice the language objective while mastering the content objective

Step Four:
Determine a collaborative model.. Do all students need the language objective teaching? Can both professionals teach and approach the goals in the same room? Will it be beneficial to use station or parallel teaching? **When using two professionals in one room, helpful to plan for specific roles (I will model and listen for the content, I will model and listen for language objective)

Helpful TIps:

Become familiar with 2-5 interactive rehearsal strategies which can be embedded into any class. Practice makes permanent and fewer class minutes will be used for instructions, freeing more minutes for
Use specific plan related to HIA current practices and discovery
System wide method/ forum for communication. How do we share the work we're doing? Many quality strategies across the school.. encourage method of sharing, learning form each other and streamlining strategies
Suggest- Compile practices and strategies- sort, organize, publish
Choose activities which will directly affect language development and interaction

School wide approach to language objectives. Which are most pressing? At HIA our students

We will create a schedule of focus and correlating interaction/ rehearsal strategies (school-wide and/or grade-level specific)

Roles:
Classroom Teacher
Determine content objective
Communicate and collaborate
support strategy use throughout the day
Seek to transform questions to interactive opportunities
Self evaluate and reflect using video and peers: % of Teacher/ Student talk, level of questioning, opportunities for student interaction, opportunities for web-based interactions

ELL Teacher
provide resources for language objectives
communicate and collaborate re: matching language objective with content objectives
model and provide resources for academic language interaction
support strategy use throughout the day
Seek to transform questions to interactive opportunities
Self evaluate and reflect using video and peers: % of Teacher/ Student talk, level of questioning, opportunities for student interaction, opportunities for web-based interactions